FOED 1110

Web Assignments

1. Group presentations project

2. Educating Esme’

a. Read the Book

b. Follow the assignment outline located on the web.

3. Charter Schools

a. Conduct a web search on the laws concerning charter schools.

b. List 2 to 3 sites and discuss the findings (make sure you find out about Tennessee’s new charter school laws)

c. Find out about the development and initiation of charter schools in Tennessee. Give proposed locations and charter definition.

And

Watch “Stand and Deliver”

d. This video is located in the LRC

e.    Choose and research one of the following educators Famous Educators:

John Gatto – New York State Teacher of the Year – 1991 – author and educator

Mary McCloud Bethune - Opened the first school exclusively for African American females

Jaime Escalante - Set standards in math that remain unequaled in American education

Marie Montessori – First educator to realize the need for true early childhood methods

f. Turn in the summary of the film (1 to 2 paragraphs) and websites with defining sentences for the one famous educator.